Europe Day Celebrations 2017 Contemporary Role of Germany and the EU in the Middle East. University of Haifa Thursday, 11 th May 2017 (10:00 14:00)

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1 Europe Day Celebrations 2017 Contemporary Role of Germany and the EU in the Middle East University of Haifa Thursday, 11 th May 2017 (10:00 14:00) CONFERENCE BOOKLET

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3 ACADEMIC CONFERENCE Contemporary Role of Germany and the EU in the Middle East Thursday, 11 th May 2017 Supported by the Delegation of the European Union to Israel Contact: Haifa Center for German and European Studies: Cathrin Shalev: +972.(0) Katharina Konarek: +972.(0) Conference Venue University of Haifa Abba Khoushy Ave. 199 Mount Carmel Haifa

4 The EU - in its early version as a common market - came about as an attempt to bring a halt to hostilities among European countries, especially France and Germany. How relevant is this experience for the current situation in the Middle- East today, and what role could the EU and Germany as its member state play in facilitating similar developments? It is true that the driving force behind European integration from its very beginning was a clear desire of the then European leaders to overcome old differences and assure a peaceful development of Europe for future generations of the European continent. This idea of peace is still very much relevant today. It represents a condition sine qua non for the successful development and future of all the peoples of the Middle Eastern region. A comprehensive and peaceful solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict in general and Israeli-Palestinian conflict in particular, is a strategic priority for the European Foreign Policy in general and the German Foreign Policy in specific.

5 Program: 10:00-10:15 Welcome Prof. Eli Salzberger, Director, HCGES Dr. Clemens Kohnen, German Embassy to Israel 10:15-11:15 Keynote speech: Prof. Artur Nowak-Far, former Polish Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs 11:15-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-13:00 Round Table: The Current Role of Germany and Europe in the Middle East Moderation: Prof. Fania Oz-Salzberger, HCGES Lars Faaborg-Andersen, Head of the Delegation of the EU to Israel Prof. Beverly Crawford, University of Berkeley Dr. Roby Nathanson, Israeli European Policy Network Arik Segal, Founder of Conntix Marc Frings, Director KAS Ramallah Manuel Gomez-Acebo, Spanish Ambassador to Israel (tbc) 13:00-14:00 Presentation: Research Projects funded by the EU Moderation: Dr. Ayelet Banai, HCGES Prof. Ilan Shimshoni, Information Systems, University of Haifa Prof. Guy Bar-Oz, Archaeology, University of Haifa Dr. Orr Dunkelmann, Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa 14:00 Lunch Buffet (invitees only) 09:30-13:30 "European Market", Café Deshe, next to the Rabin Building Information Stands from Embassies of the European Member States and Cultural Institutes 10:00-14:00 Special Program for High School Students

6 SPEAKERS Prof. Eli Salzberger, Director, Haifa Center for German and European Studies, University of Haifa Eli Salzberger is a Law Professor at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law, the director of the Haifa Center for German and European Studies, the director of the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions and he is the co-director of the International Academy for Judges at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law and was the President of the European Association for Law and Economics. During 2008 until 2011, he served as President of the European Association for Law and Economics. Subsequently, he clerked for Justice Aharon Barak of the Israeli Supreme Court and for Deputy State Attorney Dorit Beinish. His research and teaching areas are legal theory and philosophy, economic analysis of law, legal ethics, Cyberspace and the Israeli Supreme Court. Currently he is a member of the Public Council of the Israeli Democracy Institute and of a commission for reform in performers rights in Israel. Eli Salzberger was awarded various grants and fellowships, among them Rothschild, Minerva, GIF, ISF, Fulbright, ORS and British Council. Moreover he has been a visiting professor at various universities including the Microsoft-LAPA fellow at Princeton, University of Hamburg, Humboldt University, University of Torino and UCLA. Dr. Clemens Kohnen, Counsellor, German Embassy in Tel Aviv Dr. Clemens Kohnen, Counsellor, Political Section of the German Embassy in Tel Aviv. Born 1974 in Bonn, studied law in Hamburg, Tours/France and at Yeshiva University in New York. Master of Laws and Doctorate in Intellectual Property Law. Joined the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2006, postings include Moscow ( ), Berlin/Federal Chancellery ( ), and since 2014 Tel Aviv. At the embassy in Tel Aviv Dr. Kohnen mainly deals with the Middle East Peace Process and Israeli foreign and security policy as to its direct neighbors.

7 Prof. Artur Nowak-Far, former Polish Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Artur Nowak-Far (prof. dr hab.) is a director of the Institute of Law in the Warsaw School Economics where he conducts a research on legal semiotics. He was Vice-minister in the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs responsible for legal and treaty matters ( ); the member of the Supreme Chamber of Auditors ( ), advisor of the Minister of Agriculture for EU matters ( ), the member of the task-force of EU technical harmonization ( ). He also wrote about 300 publications on EU law and legal semiotics and legal reasoning. Lars Faaborg-Andersen, Head of the Delegation of the EU to Israel Prior to taking up his position in September 2013 as Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the State of Israel, Ambassador Faaborg-Andersen had a distinguished career, spanning almost thirty years, in the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In recent years, a series of appointments also brought him into close contact with Middle East issues, including the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP). From he headed the Ministry's Middle East and North Africa Department and during the Danish EU Presidency in the 2 nd half of 2002, he was the author of the original "Road Map for the MEPP" that was eventually approved by the Quartet on As Denmark's designated Middle East Envoy, he also worked closely during this period with European Union Special Representative Miguel Moratinos. Middle East issues also appeared regularly on the agenda during his terms as Deputy Permanent Representative of Denmark to the United Nations ( ) and, most recently, as Ambassador and Representative of Denmark to the Political and Security Committee (PSC) of the EU in Brussels ( ). Here he was involved in every aspect of EU policy making on the Middle East. Given his familiarity both with the Middle East and with the workings of the EU, he has termed his present position as Head of the EU Delegation to Israel, "a dream appointment". He is also no stranger to the country, having done a memorable stint as a volunteer on Kibbutz Neot Mordechai in the mid-1970s.

8 Prof. Beverly Crawford, Honorary Chair, Center for German and European Studies, University of California Berkeley Beverly Crawford has the position of the Honorary Chair at the Center for German and European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, after she has been the former leader of the Center for several years. She is also Professor emerita of Political Science and Political Economy at the University of California, Berkeley. She taught courses about Theories of International Political Economy, American Foreign Policy, Feminist Theories of International Relations, Ethnic and Religious Conflict and the Global Conflict and the Refugee Crisis. Dr. Roby Nathanson, Director, Macro Center for Political Economics Dr. Roby Nathanson is currently the General Director of the Macro Center for Political Economics He holds a PhD for Economics from the University of Cologne in Germany. Dr. Nathanson teaches at the Academic Colleague Tel Aviv and is member of the board of directors of various companies and economic advisor to decision makers in Israel and abroad. Arik Segal, Founder of Conntix Arik Segal is an expert in international conflict management and in the application of advanced technologies in innovative dialogue structures. Born in Canada and raised in Israel, he holds an HBA in International Relations from the University of Toronto and a Masters' degree from Tel Aviv University in Diplomacy Studies, as well as a Mediator's certificate from Gevim Group. Following a political position at the Embassy of Korea in Israel ( ) he set up his own independent consulting firm, focusing in leading and directing peacebuilding projects. He works in cooperation with international organizations, institutions and NGO's. Within this context, he established a unique "backchannel" with Turkish officials and designed a new theory and methodology for a dialogue project between young Israeli and Arab leaders,

9 which won an Academic Advancement Award. He also facilitates a forum of prominent young Israeli and Palestinian business leaders that works for economic and political cooperation. Arik is a lecturer in a in Hadassa Academic College in Jerusalem as well as in Talpiot Educational Collage and delivers conflict management workshops and lectures for foreign delegations and leadership groups. He established the "Young Professionals in Foreign Policy-Tel Aviv" organization and codirects the "Tec Thinking Forum for Education and Multiculturalism in MOFET Institute. Arik is a frequent guest speaker on Israeli and international stages and regularly publishes op-eds on various platforms. He also is a US State Dept. international exchange alumni and a graduate of the International academy for leadership in Gummersbach, Germany. Marc Frings, Director of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Palestinian Territories Marc Frings joined Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) in From 2010 to 2012, he worked for the KAS-country office in Jakarta for Indonesia and East-Timor, followed by an assignment as Desk Officer for South and Central Asia and Coordinator for Energy Security and Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific in the KAS-HQ in Berlin from 2012 to Since summer 2015, he is with the Middle East Department of the Foundation, serving as the Resident Representative of KAS to the Palestinian Territories. Mr. Frings has lived and worked in Bethlehem during the Second Intifada (2001/2002), and conducted a research project in Ramallah in 2009/2010. He studied Political Science and holds a master degree of the University of Marburg and the Institut d Etudes Politiques Lille/France. Before having joined KAS, Mr. Frings was Producer with the Berlin-office of ARD (German Public Broadcasting).

10 MODERATORS Prof. Fania Oz-Salzberger, Faculty of Law and Haifa Center for German and European Studies, University of Haifa Fania Oz-Salzberger is Professor of History at the University of Haifa and Researcher at the Haifa Center for German and European Studies. She completed her doctoral degree at Oxford University. As the former Fellow of the Jerusalem and Berlin Institutes of Advanced study, she also held posts as Chair of Israel Studies at Monash University and Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University. Her books include Translating the Enlightenment (Oxford, 1995), Israelis in Berlin (Jerusalem and Berlin, 2001) and, with Amos Oz, Jews and Words (Yale, 2012). She has published prolifically on the History of Ideas, the Enlightenment, Jewish Origins of Modern Political Thought, and Israeli- European relations. Her opinion articles appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Guardian, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Dr. Ayelet Banai, Haifa Center for German and European Studies and School for Political Science, University of Haifa Freedom. Ayelet Banai is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Haifa, School of Political Sciences and the Center for German and European Studies. She holds a Master s Degree in Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and received her PhD from the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University. Before coming to Haifa, she was the Research Fellow at the University of Frankfurt, dealing with International Political Theory. Her further areas of research European politics and political theory, including: the right of Self-Determination, Minority Right s and Identity Politics, Democratization and Theories of

11 ORGANISATION Cathrin Shalev, Administrative Director, Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGES) Katharina Konarek, PhD Candidate and Research Associate, Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGES) Sarah Lebert, Intern and Conference Assistent, Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGES) Leah Olbricht, Intern and Conference Assistent, Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGES)

12 Andrej Drach, Conference Assistant, Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGES) Clemens Lambermont, Conference Assistant, Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGES) THE ORGANIZING INSTITUTION Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGES) The Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGES) is a joint project of the University of Haifa and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Founded in 2007, the mission of the HCGES is to inform students, researchers and the broader community about modern Germany. In order to achieve this goal the Center engages in intensified Germany-related teaching activities and supports relevant research projects. The Center emphasizes the social, political, legal, economic and cultural developments and tendencies in Germany since The HCGES is an interdisciplinary center. It is embedded in the Research Authority of the University of Haifa and cooperates with the university's faculties of the humanities, social sciences, and law. The Center also supports relevant activities of other faculties and institutions at the University of Haifa, which are connected to modern Germany. In order to achieve this goal the Center engages in intensified Germany-related teaching activities and supports relevant research projects. The Center emphasizes the social, political, legal, economic and cultural developments and tendencies in Germany since 1945.

13 LOCAL INFORMATION Haifa: Haifa is Israel's foremost port city for international commerce and the center of Israeli high tech industries. Two of the most distinguishing features of this dynamic city are its physical beauty and its cosmopolitan population of 265,000 Jews, Christians, Muslims, Druze, and Baha is living in harmony and cultural activity. Numerous cinemas, restaurants, cafes, and clubs provide entertainment until the early hours of the morning. Through its beaches and the Carmel National Forest Haifa provides a wonderful environment for almost any kind of recreation. University of Haifa: The campus of the University of Haifa spreads along a Carmel Mountain ridge southeast of the city of Haifa and is surrounded by the Carmel National Park. The University was established in 1963 under the joint auspices of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Haifa Municipality. In 1972, it gained academic accreditation as a separate institution from the Council for Higher Education. The University of Haifa is the most pluralistic institution of higher education in Israel: sons and daughters of both veteran cities and development towns, kibbutzim and moshavim, new immigrants, Jews, Arabs, Druzes, IDF officers and security personnel all sitting together on the bench of knowledge in an atmosphere of coexistence, tolerance, and mutual respect. Some 17,000 students studied toward a degree (B.A., M.A., or Ph.D.) in 2008/09. The University offers six Faculties: Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences and Science Education, Law, Social Welfare and Health Studies and Education; In addition to that the university also offers five schools: Business Administration, Social Work, History, Public Health and Political Sciences.

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16 Haifa Center for German & European Studies (HCGES) Education and Sciences Complex Abraham & Rachel Kluger Building University of Haifa, Mount Carmel Haifa Tel: +972.(0) Fax: +972.(0)